by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jul 18, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
This June, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) faced a pivotal moment, declining to accept a proposed amendment that would have severed ties with any church led by a woman pastor. While this decision might seem like a step forward for women’s ordination, it simply...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 17, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
There continues to be much conversation and debate about who God can speak to. Apparently, God will not cup your ear and whisper into it if you are a woman. Good only for her lady parts, God has no use for women save marriage and childbearing. It reminds me of...
by Craig Nash | Mar 27, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
In 1998, shortly after I graduated from East Texas Baptist University, I was invited to attend a meeting in Dallas of Southern Baptist pastors and denominational leaders. The gathering, dubbed a “reconciliation convocation,” was an attempt to stave off the next round...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 8, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
A theological debate is taking place within the Church of England as theologians discuss if they should refer to God in gender-neutral terms. If God is not a “he,” should our language reflect this complexity? Should the proper theologically based pronouns for God...
by Todd Heifner | May 26, 2022 | Opinion
Reading the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force report since its release this past Sunday afternoon has been an agonizing and sickening exercise. Engaging the report, and consuming raw details of how broken this institution is, has almost been more...
